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In early April, a father helped his son rocket to Internet stardom with the Tumblr "Reasons My Son is Crying." The dad documented the moments in which his toddler would burst into tears for somewhat random reasons, including "I wouldn't let him drown...

Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed on stage at a paidContent conference in New York City Wednesday. That's about a minute-and-a-half longer than the average Facebook visit, and a few minu...

In a tersely written post to Tumblr's staff blog last week -- one that inspired a winning satire from The New Yorker's Caitlin Kelly -- Tumblr CEO David Karp announced that Storyboard, a company-sponsored blog that chronicled the people and creative ...

You think you know social? How about who uses it? Well, you might not know it as well as you would have guessed. A new study from the Pew Research Center and Docstoc shed some light on just who uses social and on what platforms. Some of the findings ...

It all just started because Dom Deltorto thought this was an amusing story. Deltorto, a london-based animator, had his Macbook Pro stolen from his apartment on Feb. 4. The laptop had a tracking software installed, and on Thursday, after almost two mo...

Laptops, sadly, get stolen every day (at a rate of one every 53 seconds, according to an oft-quoted Gartner study). But not all of those bereft owners get to see the thieves using their machine from 3,000 miles away. Fewer still make a Tumblr out of ...

In early 2012, Tumblr hired an editorial team to cover the "ideas, themes and people" of the vast blogging community. That team launched Storyboard, which produced hundreds of fascinating stories on everything from Hurricane Sandy relief to One Direc...

Do you know what would make sports 84% more awesome? Cats. Sure, you'd have to clean up hairballs on the court and scoop poop off the pitch, but all the extra litter and tuna costs would be totally worth it. Your new favorite Tumblr, Sports Balls Rep...

Fourteen months ago, Tumblr hired an editor-in-chief and executive editor to launch Storyboard, a Tumblr that pledged to chronicle the ideas, themes and people of the blogging network. Late Wednesday, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced that ...

MTV will introduce the Giffies, a GIF-based "awards show" that will honor memorable moments from the MTV Movie Awards, MTV exclusively told Mashable on Wednesday. During the April 14 broadcast, a GIF artist and comedians from VH1's Best Week Ever wil...

Tumblr unveiled dramatic changes to its Android app on Monday. The blogging platform announced that it has "completely redesigned" the app's interface, added post animations and made images more prominent, among other updates. Now available on Google...

We've all called the wrong number once or twice (maybe 30 times, if you're technologically challenged). Perhaps you've even landed on the other side of a wrong call, and had to disappoint the ringer requesting a delivery that you are not Pizza Hut. I...

Kids cry. They also poop, giggle and ooze with adorableness -- but, a lot of the time, they cry. One dad decided to document his little boy's reasons for busting into tears with a totally cute (and totally relatable) Tumblr called Reasons Why My Son ...

The years of rumors about a Facebook phone might finally be put to rest. Many have speculated that there is a good chance Facebook's live event on Thursday will reveal the device. If the rumors are true, that would make Facebook the first social netw...

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and her digital team have been selecting Tumblr users to document every stop along her Set the World on Fire tour. "The unbelievable art, photos and GIFs that the Tumblr community create and share every day truly inspires me," said Keys, who this year became BlackBerry's global creative director.

April Fools' Day and the first day of National Poetry Month happen to share the same date, and the team at The New York Times came up with a side project that seems to celebrate both -- or does it? The media giant started a new Tumblr on Monday calle...

Tumblr practically houses a Library of Congress-sized inventory of Fuck Yeah blogs. After one of its first (Fuck Yeah Sharks) went viral, hundreds more have spilled onto the web, celebrating everything from veggie burritos to men in plaid with an ent...

If Joss Whedon is king of the nerds, then Steven Moffat is fandom’s evil overlord. He may not be a household name in the U.S. (yet), but in the world of Tumblr, things are a little different. Along with MTV’s cult hit Teen Wolf, Tumblr fandom is rule...

Update: The issue appears to have been resolved: Network issues that affected certain Tumblr users have been resolved. Thanks for your patience.— Tumblr (@tumblr) March 30, 2013 Tumblr was experiencing "network issues" that prompted a system-wide out...

For years, Patrick Star helped hold down Bikini Bottom while SpongeBob was flippin' burgers at The Krusty Krab. But now it's time for Patrick to come out from under that rock and take a seat upon his royal meme throne, because he's an Internet star(f...

Confused about where your favorite brands stand on the marriage equality debate? The Brand Equality Tumblr is here to help. Dozens of bands including Harley-Davidson, Axe and Oreo are featured on the site, which presents logo-based riffs on the red e...

As frequent Internet denizens, we need access to all kinds of GIFs. How else would you expect us to respond to emails and IMs? The GIF has birthed a new way to communicate online, but sometimes the biggest problem is finding the perfect animated eye ...

Tumblr has reached a big milestone: More than 100 million blogs and 44.6 billion blog posts have been created using the platform. The milestone, noticed by the folks from The Next Web, comes after a very successful 2012, in which Tumblr became on of ...

When you think of a ruling Queen Bee, two people might come to mind: Don Draper and Regina George. Both command a crew of sexy minions and intimidate the pants off their enemies. And while Mad Men and Mean Girls may come from wildly different times a...

In today's ultra-connected world where the Internet is your bestest (and only) real friend, it makes sense to party it down with your favorite social media sites. While a roaring shindig with Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube and Reddit sounds like the so...

Beyonce Knowles is using her Tumblr page to give fans a taste of her newest album. Knowles dropped the song "Bow Down/I Been On" Sunday, along with a picture of her as a child wearing a floor-length, taffeta pink dress complete with tiara (obviously,...

Tumblr has updated its app for iPhone and the iPad to version 3.3, bringing several nifty updates, including a new camera app. The camera now has a grid, flash and the ability to create photosets straight from the app. Other improvements include doub...

National Geographic is dipping its toes into social waters with its latest photography project. In honor of its 125th anniversary, the non-profit has joined Tumblr to showcase "FOUND," a collection of rare photos from the National Geographic archives...

Listen up, fools. There's nothing cool about doing drugs and wasting your dreams. Even cats know that, and they have eight more lives to kill. To set teens straight, one feline is using the only tools fit for the job: Tumblr and SnapChat. SEE ALSO: T...

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